[solved] new CPU, lmsensors stopped working (seemingly)

Question

I bought a new CPU:
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R)  CPU       E6500  @ 2.93GHz
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm xsave lahf_lm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
This is what I get when I execute sensors:
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0:      +38.0°C  (high = +76.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0001
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 1:      +36.0°C  (high = +76.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
My problem is, that the two values (+38.0°C and +36.0°C) never change. They obviously changed with the previous CPU I had, depending on the load.
Rerunning sensors-detect didnt help.
I have tried the suggestion from the wiki (acpi_enforce_resources=lax), it didnt help.
Any help appreciated.
Last edited by SanskritFritz (2010-05-19 07:05:41)

Answer 1

first, check the bios (it probably has temps) and make sure the sensors are working - I've had a few broken ones - you can probably return the CPU and get a new one if that's the case, assuming you bought it from a retailer
if that's not the problem, maybe you need a special kernel module loaded and sensors-detect doesn't find it, but since you're getting temps I don't think it's likely (also be sure that sensors is in DAEMONS so that the detected modules are being loaded)
Last edited by thestinger (2010-05-18 12:57:37)